Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Dennis, a saturnine-looking Englishman of 38, is settling down this month in a Hertfordshire cottage after 15 years in the U.S. He has been a top reviewer of TIME'S Books section since 1942, before that, edited the book department of the New Republic and scanned movies for the National Board of Review. A Sea Change, his second novel (his first, Chalk and Cheese, was published under a pseudonym in England in 1934), goes to show, as history has shown, that a good literary critic may also be a good novelist. Not only has Dennis performed...
Madame Bovary (M-G-M), when the novel was first published in France in 1856, created a major scandal. Haled into court, Author Gustave Flaubert was charged with defaming French womanhood and corrupting the public morals. The Hollywood version, by framing the story within the court proceedings against Flaubert, has neatly combined fact with fiction to produce a fascinating close-up of provincial manners & morals in igth Century France. By the same device it deftly short-circuits the Johnston office, incorporating its apologia into its action...
...only more-or-less average Americans in Mary McCarthy's satirical fantasy about a bunch of highbrows who decide that it is time for people like themselves to hit it for the grass roots. This is not the first time that sprightly Author McCarthy, onetime wife of Critic Edmund Wilson and former drama critic of the fiercely intellectual Partisan Review, has peppered the left wing with birdshot. In The Company She Keeps (TIME, June 1, 1942), she made a novel of sorts out of a series of lively, only-too-lifelike portraits of Manhattan intellectuals. Her new book...
Anybody Got a Commodity? It is on this split between the active but lowbrow man-in-the-street and the wrangling but ineffectual man-of-intellect that Author McCarthy spins her tale. In McCarthy's fable, the incidents of everyday life on the mountaintop soon show that the split is in fact a bridgeless gulf, and Utopia itself a creation without foundations-doomed not so much by "history" as by the colonists' inability to produce "a commodity more tangible than morality" and hopeful...
...very good it is," exclaimed Horizon Editor Cyril Connolly, "how brilliant and true and funny and beautifully written and intelligently thought and felt." Less susceptible readers are likely to emerge from The Oasis with drier emotions. Author McCarthy's wit sparkles very nicely as long as she is standing the false gods of contemporary intellectualism on their heads and displaying her theory-ridden victims against a backdrop composed of the simple facts of life. Nonetheless, most of The Oasis has just the same fatal flaw as the Utopia it describes-it is built entirely of disembodied ideas and peopled...